Team

Executive Director - Marcin Jakubowski, PhD

opensourceecology@gmail.com

A Polish-American who is starting a new civilization -- from scratch -- in the Midwestern US. Marcin came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his PhD in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin. Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) (see his 2011 TED Talk), an open source DIY tool set of 50 different industrial machines necessary to create a small civilization with modern comforts.

His work has recently been recognized in his acceptance as a 2012 TED Senior Fellow, a 2012 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and his TED Talk was named the top 6th in the Huffington Post Best of TED 2011. His goal is to create the open source economy - an economy that optimizes both production and distribution - while providing environmental regeneration and social justice. To this end, Marcin is currently building a team of global collaborators and on-site builders for his land-based facility - to take this from concept to reality. He believes that the open source economy is a prerequisite to autonomy that allows people to pursue mastery - consistent with higher purpose.

Director of Development - Aaron Makaruk

Aaron Makaruk AaronMakaruk@gmail.com

Interdisciplinary Developer - Yoonseo Kang

ykang404@gmail.com

Let us expand and integrate our technological frontiers for social well-being

Yoonseo Kang

Farm Manager - Gabrielle LeBlanc

feathersandmoss -at- gmail -dot- com

Gabrielle (Gabi) is at Factor e Farm to create a template for subsistent agriculture; developing and maintaining an ecosystem that produces sufficient food, fiber, medicine, and fuel for the Global Village.

• User Bio
• Gabi's log
• Work Plan
• FeF Agriculture Resources
• Site Plan
• On-Site Garden Plan
• Neosubsistent Agriculture Model
• Gabi's Youtube Channel

Executive Assistant - Parker Bonnell

parkerbonnell@gmail.com

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Video Communications Director - Tristan Copley Smith

trizcs@gmail.com

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Past Participants

Volunteer - Graham Robertson - June - November, 2012

In 2008, Graham left school at 15 to be able to pursue his interests. After a year of researching and mulling ideas, he set out to connect with others who were working in permaculture design, and heard about OSE by word of mouth among interest groups in Dallas.

After two years of working with a natural builder in Texas and apprenticing on farms, Graham decided learning about fabrication of GVCS was his primary goal for 2012. He plans to take this knowledge back to Texas to replicate GVCS machines for sale and use in a small market garden endeavor.

His past research and experience lies in design of buildings and food systems; he hopes to find ways to integrate community design with GVCS tech.

He initially planned to build Microtrac prototype II before 2013, but has realized the shortage of hands at FeF and the abundance of other priorities, so his work on Microtrac design is on hiatus. He plans to resume work if/when FeF infrastructure is sufficient and a self-funding business model is in place for the project. If the right people and opportunities come together in Texas, he hopes to open a machine shop for developing and selling GVCS machines.

• Microtractor Research and Development Scrum board
• Graham's Log
• grobertson29@gmail.com

Production Director - Marshall Hilton P.E. - July - September, 2012

marshall.hilton@gmail.com

Marshall is a Mechanical Engineer, bike mechanic and metal fabricator originally from St. Louis, Missouri and recently from San Francisco, California. He has a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Kansas. He holds a professional's Engineer's license in California. He has worked for Arup in San Francisco for 4 years. He has been a bike mechanics instructor at the Bike Kitchen in San Francisco for the last 3 years.

Marshall's passion is creating transformative technologies which have a regenerative relationship with the earth while living in compassionate community. The principals of permiculture are his inspiration

Marshall is an avid bicyclist and in 2011 bicycled from San Francisco, CA to Oaxaca, Mexico with his sister.

Volunteer - Aidan Williamson - June - August, 2012

aidan.d.williamson@gmail.com

General purpose volunteer and returning in December 2012 for 4 weeks.

Volunteers - Summer 2011